House Plants - Care Info
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While the poinsettia remains the most popular of the holiday plants, a healthy Christmas cactus in full bloom is a great gift idea for that special gardener.
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To grow African violets, you must provide the proper amount of light, otherwise the leaf blades will become thin, and the stalks elongated. Read more
Draceana usually have tall stems like palm leaves with tufts of narrow, sword-like leaves at the top. Some grow into large plants, often 10 feet or more, while others don’t reach more than 3 feet.
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Many types of Jasmine are also known under the name of Jessamine. Those grown indoors generally have in common attractively perfumed flowers that are white to yellow in color and most highly scented at night
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Palms give a wonderful tropical feeling to the indoor garden. They are slow growing, and always provide accent, mood and are consistently popular as houseplants.
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Calandiva is a new, breathtakingly, attractive houseplant. This exclusive novelty has been bred from a Kalanchoe blossfeldiana.
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Many people tend to think that cacti and succulents are too difficult to care for and decide against even buying them.
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Norfolk pines have distinctively flat branches and short soft needles. They enjoy humid environments. With age, and lack of humidity, the needles along the trunk will fall off.
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Although many attractive anthuriums are grown especially for their flowers, some are becoming increasingly popular as foliage plants. The exotic anthurium is from the American tropics.
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Many gardeners have discovered that although bromeliads have exotic tropical foliage and flowers, they are not difficult to grow indoors. The most distinctive feature of Bromeliads is the cup shaped rosette of leaves.....
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The distinctive flower of this plant evokes an understanding of its common name, peace lily. The spathe is a pure white bract that encloses true flowers.
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Cyclamen are traditionally sold during the Christmas season and into the winter as a florist plant. Most will bloom from mid-November until spring, provided conditions are satisfactory.
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Sinningia speciosa is the well-known “Florist’s Gloxinia”. These hybrids are loved for their large, brightly colored flowers. Almost every color combination is available.
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Dendrobiums are among the most commonly encountered orchids in the retail trade. Like most other cultivated orchids, dendrobiums are epiphytes, or air plants.
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You have now become part of an oriental art form dating back to the 5th century. The Chinese were the first people known to cultivate trees dwarfed by nature.
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Some plants live in situations where their roots cannot obtain sufficient nutrients, and so they have evolved mechanisms to trap insects and then digest the contents of their bodies.
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Plants in the citrus family have something for all seasons: shiny, dark green foliage; attractively scented with white flowers that appear intermittently through out the year, and colorful long lasting fruits.
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Our traditional holiday plant was brought to this country by the U.S. Minister to Mexico in 1835. He returned to South Carolina with cuttings of this pretty Mexican wildflower. It still bears his name.
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Tropical plants add color, life, and humidity to our homes, especially during the dull days of winter. There are plants that will grow and flourish in almost all spots in your home.
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An American Orchid Society demographic survey showed that phalaenopsis have become America’s favorite orchid. And no wonder. Perhaps no other orchid is better suited to home orchid growing.
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